A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Bengel, Johann Albrecht, 1687-1752 • SECTION 463

498 Hebrews Xiii. 12-15.

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of the testimony, to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten; it shall be burnt in the fire. — £wwv, of the animals) ch. ix. 12, 13. — afya' <tu,uara, blood; bodies) which were the shadows of the blood and of the body of Christ. — g'gw rfa a-aps^/SoX^) without the camp, in which were the tabernacle, and the Levi- tical priests, and as many of them as adhered to that worship. So the LXX., Lev. iv. 12, 21, etc., xvi. 27.

12. "iva ayiaa'/i) that He might sanctify, might cleanse from sins, might lead (bring) from the world to GOD. This corre sponds to d-yia, ver. 11. — /<5/ou, His own) An antithesis to, of ani mals. — afaaroc, blood) The mention of the body is implied in the verb, He suffered ; and accordingly the 1 1th verse, respect ing the blood of animals and their bodies, has its Apodosis here, in the 12th verse. — rbv Xaov, the people) ch. ii. 17. — e%u rrig nvXyc, ivithout the gate) as if lie had been deemed unworthy of the companionship of men; Matt, xxvii. 32. Comp. Lev. xxiv. 13. He suffered without the gate of the city (although the apostle purposely (skilfully) abstains from the use of the word, city), which city itself was like the camp in the wilderness, and had the temple, as the camp had the tabernacle. — l^afa, He suffered) The type of the passion was the burning of the victims. The passion, properly, is that on the cross, without the gate.

13. To/vuv) The particle, put at the beginning (Is. v. 13, xxvii. 4, xxxiii. 23) in this passage, breathes the deliberate forti tude of believers. So roiyupow, at the beginning of chap. xii. — g£w rfg Kapt'jspoXqg, without the camp) ver. 11. The camp de notes Judaism. — rbv oveidio/tlv airoD, His reproach) i.e. the cross, ch. xii. 2. — pepovrsc, bearing) as Simon of Cyrene ; Matt, in the passage quoted above.

14. Tap, for) The reason why he uses the expression, the camp, not the city, ver. 13. Faith considers Jerusalem itself as a camp [not a city]. — psvouffav, ft'&).Xov<rav) A Paranomasia. At the same time not continuing is an allusion to the devastation of Jerusalem, which was then at hand. He does not condescend to name the city, which does not continue. We do not con tinue here ; nor does the city itself continue at all. — --oXiv, a city) ch. xi. 10, note. In like manner Paul, Phil. iii. 20. — cteXXoutfav, one to come) ch. ii. 5, note.

15. A/' aurotf, by Him) 1 Pet. ii. 5. — Qveiav, the sacrifice) The

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